So yeah put together my system ( the e6600 with ASUS P5N-E 650i ) with the 2 gigs of g.skill and 8800 gtx ( have vista premium btw ). Was incredably hard to install the gtx ( had to re-arrange the wires and retie em down, but after a few hours more of being very careful I finally got it without snapping my gtx in half. Booted up, all the fans working, everything seemed good, smelled a little funky ( dunno if it was smoke or just the strong smell of the cpu parts when blown since the side was open ). Browsed around in Vista a little before shortly recieving the BOD.
Thought maybe it could be a Vista problem ( yes I know its bad ), tried to update windows, got another BOD. Then another, then another, sometimes I even got a BOD during bootup before the loading of Vista which led me to believe it to be a hardware problem. I strongly suspect the ram, cause 33% of the many many BODs I got that night were physical memory dumps and all that jazz. I probably got like 20 BODs in the 30 minutes I used my computer, so yeah theres a definite problem. Although I did manage to get most Vista updates before getting the BODs.
Today I plan to try my old 512 stick of pc6400 to determine if it is indeed the ram, but for now I have to go to work. To be honest I really hope the problem lies in the ram, and isn't something more important. My thermoelectric cooler ( vigor gaming monsoon ) also sometimes completely stops spinning during operation ( I have no idea wether or not this is normal ).
Thought maybe it could be a Vista problem ( yes I know its bad ), tried to update windows, got another BOD. Then another, then another, sometimes I even got a BOD during bootup before the loading of Vista which led me to believe it to be a hardware problem. I strongly suspect the ram, cause 33% of the many many BODs I got that night were physical memory dumps and all that jazz. I probably got like 20 BODs in the 30 minutes I used my computer, so yeah theres a definite problem. Although I did manage to get most Vista updates before getting the BODs.
Today I plan to try my old 512 stick of pc6400 to determine if it is indeed the ram, but for now I have to go to work. To be honest I really hope the problem lies in the ram, and isn't something more important. My thermoelectric cooler ( vigor gaming monsoon ) also sometimes completely stops spinning during operation ( I have no idea wether or not this is normal ).